Economical lung resections

The desire to combine the economy of resection with its radicalism is one of the basic principles of modern pulmonary surgery. This principle is most fully embodied in segmental resection, which, in the words of PA Kupriyanov, is "one of the most important achievements of pulmonary surgery." However, along with the segmental one, other types of economical resections have not lost their right to exist - combined resections (removal of a lobe and a group of adjacent segments), wedge-shaped, marginal, etc. The widespread introduction into practice of domestic devices UKL-40 and UKL-60 led to the development of a technique as follows called "mechanical", wedge-shaped and marginal resection. The choice of this or that type of resection is associated with the characteristics of the pathological focus in the lung, its localization, extent, the nature of the pleural reaction, etc.